Help with turkey feet

[Kwbwbra2023]

I just acquired this guy from an old man who was sick an could no longer care for him. I don't know anything else about him. I don't know much about turkey and somethings going on with his feet. What can I do to help him?

 

[R2elk]

I just acquired this guy from an old man who was sick an could no longer care for him. I don't know anything else about him. I don't know much about turkey and somethings going on with his feet. What can I do to help him?

Try Epsom salt foot baths.

Get him on a good all flock feed and out on that grass in the background.

 

[ChickNanny13]

Clarify what your concern is .... Is it the crooked toes? curled toes in turkeys
It's usually a vitamin deficiency (Riboflavin/Vitamin B2) riboflavin
It seems to be ok walking and getting around, when it's first noticed in chicks I start a supplement of Vitamin B complex and tape the toes straight. You could try the vitamin supplement although being older, unsure it would make it better, wouldn't hurt. Just make sure you feed them a nutritional diet required for turkeys.

 

[Kwbwbra2023]

Try Epsom salt foot baths.

Get him on a good all flock feed and out on that grass in the background.

Thank you I will try it. Any idea what is going on with them? Or is this just poor nutrition.

 

[ChickNanny13]

A friend feeds her chickens well but this last hatch she had crooked toes in a chick. Have also read it could be genetics, how it's positioned in the egg, hatching/brooding ...

 

[Kwbwbra2023]

Clarify what your concern is .... Is it the crooked toes? curled toes in turkeys
It's usually a vitamin deficiency (Riboflavin/Vitamin B2) riboflavin
It seems to be ok walking and getting around, when it's first noticed in chicks I start a supplement of Vitamin B complex and tape the toes straight. You could try the vitamin supplement although being older, unsure it would make it better, wouldn't hurt. Just make sure you feed them a nutritional diet required for turkeys.

Yes mainly the curling toes. He gets around fine. At his age I don't think I will tape them. I will definitely have him on a good feed. Thank you

 

[R2elk]

Thank you I will try it. Any idea what is going on with them? Or is this just poor nutrition.

No way to know. Obviously was being kept in poor conditions and just as likely was getting poor quality feed.